It was raining, and Shi Deping's right thigh was faintly painful. On that day, he was stabbed on the Taihu Lake, which really hurt his bones, but Shi Deping supported it strongly, and he didn't faint until the end of the battle. At that time, Shi Deping's right leg was bleeding nonstop, so Han Shi also arranged for Shi Deping to follow Jiang Guogong to transfer and not take him to the Sisheng Islands. Shi Deping's mother died early, and his father took over as the owner of the village after an accident, and he was only in his early twenties at this time, so he naturally had no family.

At this time, Shi Deping had just recovered, and he was thinner than when he was in Taihu, but the fierce voice on his face was undiminished.

When he heard someone push the door in, he buzzed and asked, "Dog, is there any news?" ”

The dog lost an arm during the battle in Taihu Lake, and he followed here. With one arm missing, it didn't hinder him from doing things, so Xuanzhou Construction also hired him as a full-time laborer to pick bricks and stones on the construction site. After getting off the construction site, he came to take care of a seriously injured person like Shi Deping. "I've asked around, but I haven't heard of any news."

Shi Deping has almost recovered now, but he just feels that it is difficult to stay on Jiang Guogong's land, not to mention that everyone is working the island, what is the matter with him here. I couldn't help muttering: "What's the matter with the big boss, it's been almost a month and I haven't had a letter!" ”

"Thirteen is in charge, and now it's only about twenty days." The dog lost an arm, he was very sad at first, and then he slowly let go, this mentality was calm, and people also became humorous, even if he dared to say a word or two with Shi Deping.

"You help me talk to the owner of the bird Xuanzhou construction, and when the sky is clear, I will also go to the construction site." Shi Deping said, "We can't always eat other people's relief food. ”

"The doctor said that you have to rest for a while, otherwise the bones will not be able to nourish the rope." The dog replied.

"Is this bone mine, or is it the doctor's?" Shi Deping snorted coldly, "I don't care about this little injury yet. ”

"Thirteen masters should take it easy." Someone outside the door said loudly, and then pushed the door open. The thatched hut is not soundproof, and Shi Deping's words were heard clearly by the people outside. It was Li Congyi who came in. Li Congyi had just taken people to inspect the construction site of the ferry new city, and he came to see the old and weak women and children in the villages of Taihu Lake.

The construction of Xuanzhou is not a fairy, digging the foundation, building the wall, and building the roof must come step by step. Only a few who are old and weak or have not been born for a long time have squeezed out a fenced house from Xuangang to settle in, and the rest can only temporarily build a thatched house to live in.

"Jiang Guogong is very interested." Shi Deping replied without yin or yang. For these big officials, Shi Deping felt that they were all goods that ate people and did not spit out bones, so he didn't believe that Jiang Guogong had any kindness to everyone. It's just to give some benefits, looking forward to the Taihu Lake villages to give him his life. However, these old and weak women and children in Taihu Zhuzhai have been resettled by Jiang Guogong, and they can indeed live more people, and everyone can't help but admit this.

"I've sent someone to find Han Da's master. Thirteen masters are a little restless, first follow the doctor's instructions, and meditate and cultivate. Li Congyi's words changed, "I estimate that Xuanzhou will go to sea next month, and the Ningguo Army Water Camp will also pretend to be a merchant ship and go together." The sea is high and the waves are urgent, do you dare to go? ”

Shi Deping laughed angrily: "I'm not afraid of death, and where I don't dare to go?" ”

"The general of the water battalion is Zhang Qiao, the battalion commander of the former Taihu Lake Water Division, can you listen to his orders when the time comes, and will the order be forbidden?"

"This guy!" Shi Deping stopped his mouth in time, glared at Li Congyi, and said, "What are you going to do?" ”

"I've worked hard to get your family members here, and then I'm going to exterminate you on a broken island where birds don't eight hundred miles away, is my brain in water?" Li Congyi took a sip.

Shi Deping also felt that he was thinking too much, so he grinned. "I know the truth in the army. As long as Zhang Qiao is not blindly commanding, I, Shi Deping, will naturally obey orders. ”

"Also, those few wounded who can recover will enter the water camp of our Ningguo Army after they are healed. You are not allowed to take it away. ”

"This ......," said Shi Deping, "they have to leave by themselves, and I can't care about it." ”

"You don't have to play tricks. There is no more one person on the island, and there is no less one person. These wounded people joined our Ningguo Army, which can be regarded as a little compensation for the good deeds done by the Taihu Villages. ”

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The island occupied by Taihu Village is at the easternmost tip of the Sisheng Islands, sandwiched between two large islands in the north and south, with Bird and Flower Island in the north and Shengshan Island in the south. Bird and Flower Island has long been occupied by pirates; Shengshan Island is larger, and there are several pirate forces on the island. It's just that Shengshan Island is big enough, and the pirates are only for money, so they can get along safely. Anji Island to the north of Shengshan Island is also not small, and there are also pirates who occupy the island.

The Butterfly Island occupied by Han Shi is between Bird and Flower Island and Anki Island. Butterfly Island is also the name obtained by Han Shi, named after the island in the shape of a butterfly. Han Shi took the Taihu Lake Zhukou and occupied more than a dozen large and small islands around Butterfly Island, with Butterfly Island being the northernmost part, and the rest of the islands forming a semi-circular shape, the farthest one from Butterfly Island was on the west side, and it was half an hour's sea range.

It is already at the easternmost point of the Sisheng Islands. There are no other islands to protect it, and the typhoon is very bad. The Taihu Villages underestimated the power of the sea, and did not understand that there were no pirates on these small islands, only the reason behind them. Han Shi's previous top soldiers on Butterfly Island were only more than 20 people, occupying a naturally formed cave on the mountain to camp, although he stayed on the island for a year, he didn't have much concept of typhoon prevention.

As a result, a typhoon, Taihu Lake Zhuzhai on several small islands, the hard-working tents were destroyed, dozens of people in the thatched hut could not avoid and were injured, although the injury is not big, but on this island is a blue wisp of the road, even some medicine is not a doctor, at this time I understand that night Jiangguo Gong messenger said, "After arriving in Qinglong Town, in addition to rice, grain, gold and silver, be sure to find some medicine, if necessary, or you can hold one or two doctors hostage" how prescient. It's a pity that I didn't pay much attention to it at that time, only broke down a few pharmacies, grabbed some medicinal materials, and at this time I just used them indiscriminately for the wounded.

There are no particularly good anchorages for ships on the islands, and when the typhoon blows, several ships break their cables and drift away without a trace. There are also several boats that were blown to the shore and capsized, but fortunately, there are quite a lot of ships in the Taihu Lake Zhuzhai this time, and a slight loss is not harmful.

Han Shi also had the idea of seizing the island, but the relationship between the pirates in the Sisheng Islands was complicated. Han Shi sent people to settle on Butterfly Island for only a year, and they had no strong relationship on land, so they couldn't figure out the connection behind the phenomenon of these pirates sometimes fighting and killing, and sometimes cooperating sincerely. On the other hand, on this sea, the Taihu Kou did not have much chance of winning against the pirates.

After Han Shi's spearhead soldiers occupied Butterfly Island, they also thought about the lonely Flower and Bird Island in the northeast corner, and also organized a sneak attack, but the Taihu Lake boat was a flat-topped boat, which was not suitable for the sea, so it could only attack with three turtle boats of two or three hundred stones carrying about 200 people, and as a result, it was discovered dozens of miles away from Flower and Bird Island, and there was a naval battle. There are few pirates on Bird and Flower Island, but the two six-hundred-stone ships are condescending, and the ship's skills are more sophisticated, advancing and retreating on the sea, and the division and combined attacks completely dominate the upper hand, and Han Shi has been pressed and beaten. The sneak attack failed, and the sea could not be defeated, so they had no choice but to retreat. But it is not easy to withdraw, and the pirates of Bird and Flower Island pursued them, and when they arrived on Butterfly Island, they had already suffered more than 50 casualties.

After settling on Butterfly Island, there were thousands of people in Taihu Zhuzhai, and there were women and children who were also healthy women, so that a force reached the East China Sea, which was enough to make all the pirates look sideways.

After the Taihu Lake villages plundered Qinglong Town, they went to sea and disappeared into the vast sea. However, the six major maritime merchants of Wuyue, including the Fuchun Sun family, already knew that the Taihu Zhuzhai had occupied Butterfly Island and the surrounding islands.

The news that Taihu Kou detained two merchant ships of the Fuchun Sun family in the eastern waters of Sisheng has already spread throughout the Sisheng Islands.

Han Shi is not a reckless cargo, but the Sun family's merchant ship was unlucky and happened to bump into the Taihu Kou who was cruising in the eastern sea. The Sun family's two 500-stone merchant ships were not unarmed, but when they saw Taihu Kou's two thousand-stone ships and one 800-stone ship, they wisely gave up resistance and negotiated instead.

Han Shi's first request was to escort. Of course, the escort is an excuse, but it is just to take the opportunity to find a way. And a shipping route is countless wealth, and the shopkeeper of the Sun family's trip naturally refused. The shopkeeper of the Sun family also saw that this group of pirates was also a newcomer, and they were also all kinds of tricks, so that Han Shi's coercion and temptation had nowhere to start. In the end, in desperation, Han Shi forcibly deducted some goods as tolls, so he released the two ships of the Sun family, and sent a thousand-stone boat to follow from afar.

But the shopkeeper of the Sun family also ran the old sea route, and soon found out that he was tired, and he threw off Taihu Kou's boat after going around in a circle at night.

But the shopkeeper of the Sun family wants the praying mantis to catch cicadas and the yellow finch behind, Taihu Kou is easy to with, and some old Kou who has been crisscrossing the East China Sea for many years has found an opportunity. The sky was bright, and several sea ships approached by the wind, and the Sun family's merchant ships were tired all night, and they only found the enemy ships several miles away, so how could they have time at this time.

Pirates only seek money, and generally do not destroy ships. The Sun family has two ships, and under normal circumstances, one can always escape. When the sailors on the merchant ship were busy extinguishing the fire, they lowered the ignition ship from the upwind and burned the Sun family's merchant ship clean.

The Sun family's merchant ship was lost at sea, and the corpse wreckage was found by passing merchant ships. This account can only be counted on Taihu Kou. And Han Shi didn't even know that he had caused trouble.

Han Shi stood on a seaside cliff on Butterfly Island, just frowning at this time. He was reluctant to send someone to contact Jiang Guogong, that is, he was unwilling to bow to Jiang Guogong, and wanted to open up the situation in the East China Sea and cooperate with Jiang Guogong in a more equal manner. But now, a typhoon has made the Taihu Lake villages complain, people's hearts are fluctuating, and some people have even proposed to leave this ghost place and go back to Taihu Lake. At this time, Han Shi could only consider sending someone to Xuanzhou to find Jiang Guogong. But how? Who to send?

Lu Yuan had a strip of cloth tied to one arm, not because he was injured in the typhoon, but when he was righting a sea boat that was blown down on the beach by a typhoon, he was accidentally cut by a broken wooden plank. Lu Yuan walked to Han Shi's side and looked around.

It has been several days since the typhoon passed, and the island is still in shambles.

There were several boats fishing, and from a distance I saw a boat with a net full of seafood.

Zhoushan Fishery is one of the four largest fishing grounds in the world, and it is really not a joke. The fishermen of Taihu Lake are here, but Han Shi strictly controls the supply of rice and grain, and everyone actually uses fish and meat as rice and rice as a dish every day, and I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate.

"Han Da is in charge, I have a word, since the big boss has made a choice that day, there is no reason to hesitate at this time." Lu Yuan said, "I would like to go to Xuanzhou." ”

Han Shi stared, "There seems to be a ship coming from the south." ”

Lu Yuan turned his head to look, a two-hundred-stone sea ship, several sails were all raised, but they fled with the wind, and the two ships behind were in hot pursuit, but they wanted to drive the ship in front of them out. And every time the boat pulled a distance, it adjusted its direction to this side, as if it wanted to come to Butterfly Island.